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Senate Roll Call 493, 110th Congress · March 13, 2008

To add a deficit-neutral reserve fund for repealing the 1993 increase in the income tax on Social Security benefits.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

53 yea · 46 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 1 nay
Republican3 yea · 45 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 70 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2009 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2008 and 2010 through 2013.

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Cut taxes”

    model(0.80): Establishing a reserve fund to repeal a tax increase supports reducing taxes.

    Tagged by: keyword:income tax

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A deficit-neutral reserve fund maintains overall fiscal neutrality.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (53)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (1)

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